Ionic is a popular open-source framework for building cross-platform mobile applications using web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With Ionic, developers can create high-performance mobile apps that run seamlessly on iOS, Android, and the web, leveraging a single codebase. Through tutorials, documentation, and community forums, Ionic empowers developers to build feature-rich mobile apps with native-like user experiences, access to device features, and robust performance.

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Capacitor 8 will introduce Swift Package Manager (SPM) as a first-class dependency manager alongside CocoaPods, which enters maintenance mode in 2026. New Capacitor projects will default to SPM, while existing projects can migrate using the CLI's swift-migration-assistant tool. All Ionic-maintained plugins support SPM, but third-party plugins need updates. The capacitor-plugin-converter tool helps automate plugin conversion for Swift-only plugins, though mixed Objective-C/Swift plugins require manual conversion. Projects cannot mix SPM and CocoaPods, so developers must choose one approach.

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